Impressionism

Impressionism Art Movement

The Impressionism art movement was founded in the late 19^th century (roughly 1874) by a group of artists, sculptors and printmakers who made an exhibition that launched the Impressionism art style. Some of the founding members were Monet, Pissarro and Degas and many others. They sought to view and project art in a non-traditional way like… giving it un-finished looks, using different techniques such as the ‘’impasto’’ (a technique which involves applying the paint directly on the artwork with a palette knife), pointillist brush-strokes (technique were brush strokes are applied in an illusionistic way to project the image in the viewer’s mind), short and thick strokes of paint to capture the light and essence of the world. One particular technique was the avoidance of the black and dark tones because in Impressionism dark tones were achieved by mixing the colors together.

WebMuseum: Impressionism. 2013. WebMuseum: Impressionism. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/. [Accessed 03 April 2013].

Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm. [Accessed 03 April 2013].